Re: [Quanta] Who wants to move Quanta forward?

On Sunday 27 December 2009 12:50:19 Niko Sams wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 19:39, Arthur Marsh
> 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Niko Sams wrote, on 28/12/09 04:39:
> >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:51, Arthur Marsh
> >>
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> To switch to KDE 4.X, I'd need Quanta to run acceptably including the
> >>> ftp kioslave.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to support moving Quanta towards that goal as a non C++
> >>> programmer who is nonetheless happy to compile and build test versions
> >>> and file bug reports and even perhaps contribute cash to developers.
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> what are your use-cases for quanta?
> >> Niko
> >
> > Just some simple personal web-pages.
> >
> > Quanta can handle strict XHTML 1.1 compliance better than other web page
> > editors and allows one to see that the structure of a web page is
> > correct, so that an external validator is only needed at the end of an
> > editing session rather than several times during the session.
> 
> that means you need:
> - html code completion
> - html validator
> - support for html doctypes
> All that is unfortunately not yet avaliable, someoe has to pick the
> html plugin up.
> 
> Niko
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What's the strategy for moving Quanta forward?  Is the plan to make it part of 
KDevelop? ie. A plugin approach?  Create a web dev project template?  or will 
it remain a separate application?

Is there a guide for getting a basic development environment set up for quanta 
development?  ie. I am used to eclipse development where we install a specific 
version of eclipse and java and then check out the latest code from svn.  Are 
there instructions for doing that with kdevelop?  In other open source 
projects I have been involved with, that is the first step.

So, what's the strategy, and how does a beginner get started?  

Mike